CCH iFirm Tax T3 2020 v.3.0 (2020.20.28.01)

Capital Cost Allowance

To access the CCA calculation workcharts, press F9 (or double-click) when the cursor is positioned in one of the three tables in Area A of Form T776, Statement of Real Estate Rentals (Jump Code: 776), the Statement of Farming Activities (Jump Code: 2042) or the Statement of Business or Professional Activities (Jump Code: 2125).

Setting Up and Deleting Classes

To set up or delete a CCA class when you are in one of the tables in Area A, proceed as follows:

To set up a class: click Add in the appropriate table (depending on whether you want to set up a class 10.1, a class 13 or a class other than 10.1 or 13). A new line will appear. Press F9 (or double-click) to access the related calculation workchart, and select the appropriate class using the search tool. The class is now set up and is part of Area A. Note: In the case of classes 10.1 and 13, the calculation workchart is specific and you do not have to select the class.
To delete a class, there are two possibilities:
- from the calculation workchart of the class, click Delete on the toolbar;
- from either one of the three tables in Area A of Form T776, Form T2042 or Form T2125, select the class (the line) that you want to delete, and click Delete.

Sorting of CCA classes

Two sort functions are offered in the section for the CCA class calculation for each self-employment statement or summary of real estate rental properties. The first sort button allows you to display the CCA classes in ascending order on screen and when printing. The second sort button allows you to prioritize the depreciation of classes other than classes relating to buildings (1, 3 and 6). This sort will ensure that the program will calculate the CCA of all other classes, and if the net income is still positive, the program will then depreciate the classes relating to buildings. When adding classes, you can simply sort the classes again. The sort will be retained when rolling forward the client file.

Entering Information

From one of the tables in Area A, you may enter all relevant information with respect to a class that you have just set up or to an already existing class. To do so, access the calculation workchart of the class in one of the following ways:

place your cursor on the desired class and double-click; or
highlight the desired class and press F9.

Once the calculation workchart of the class is displayed, enter the required information on the appropriate lines. Where dealing with an acquisition or a disposition, follow the procedure below.

Acquisition of Property in the Year

To enter property acquired in the year (as long as the property has become available for use in the year), press F9 when the cursor is positioned on the Additions (half-year) or Additions (normal rate) line, as the case may be. The cursor then moves in the History of Acquisitions and Dispositions table. Afterwards, double-click the highlighted line (or press F9) to access the Acquisitions and Dispositions Workchart, where you can enter the relevant information not forgetting the purchase date.

This method will allow you to keep track of the adjusted cost base of the property from one year to the other as it will be included when permanent data is rolled forward. If you do not wish to follow the above described procedure, you can override the Additions (half-year) or Additions (normal rate) line of the calculation workchart of the class, as the case may be.

For self-employed statements, only the portion of each property used to earn income must be entered.

Disposition of Property in the Year

To enter a disposition of property made in the year, press F9 when the cursor is positioned on the Disposition line.

At this point, if the property that has been disposed of has already been entered in the History of Acquisitions and Dispositions, point your mouse to it and double-click. You will then access the copy of the Acquisitions and Dispositions Workchart regarding this property where you can enter the relevant information regarding the disposition (not forgetting the date).

However, if the property that has been disposed of has not been entered in this history, enter the lesser of the proceeds of disposition and capital cost of the property on the Disposals line in the calculation workchart of the class.

When a property was disposed of and this disposition is partial, indicate the proceeds of disposition and the related minimal cost to calculate the net proceeds of disposition.

CCA Classes

For CCA purposes, property belonging to a taxpayer used to earn income is divided into different classes. A listing of the most common follows:

Class 1: Most buildings bought after 1987, including components such as wiring, plumbing, heating, and cooling systems.

Class 1.2: Buildings used for manufacturing or processing acquired after March 18, 2007, (including new buildings any portion of which was acquired by a taxpayer after March 18, 2007, or after, if the building was under construction on March 19, 2007) that have neither been used, nor acquired for use before March 19, 2007. To be included in class 1.2, at least 90% of the building (measured by square footage) must be used for the designated purpose at the end of the taxation year. Buildings acquired before March 19, 2007, or whose total area used for the designated purpose at the end of the taxation year is less than 90% are included in class 1.

Class 1.3: Buildings used mainly for non-residential purposes acquired after March 18, 2007, (including new buildings any portion of which was acquired by a taxpayer on or after March 19, 2007, or after, if the building was under construction on March 19, 2007) that have neither been used, nor acquired for use, before March 19, 2007. To be included in class 1.3, at least 90% of the building (measured by square footage) must be used for non-residential purposes at the end of the taxation year. Buildings acquired before March 19, 2007, or whose total area used for non-residential purposes at the end of the taxation year is less than 90% are included in class 1.

Class 3: Most buildings, including components, bought after 1978 and before 1988.

Class 6: Frame, log, stucco on frame, galvanized iron, or corrugated metal buildings that do not have any footings below the ground and which are used by the taxpayer for the purpose of gaining or generating income from farming or fishing. Class 6 also includes fences and greenhouses.

Class 7: Canoes, rowboats, and most other vessels and their motors, furniture, and fittings.

Class 8: Property that is not included in any other class, such as fixtures, furniture, machinery, photocopiers, refrigeration equipment, telephones, tools costing $500 or more. Class 8 also includes outdoor advertising signs bought after 1987.

Class 8.1: Art work acquired after April 21, 2005 (drawing, print, engraving, gravure, sculpture or painting).

Class 9: Aircraft, including furniture or equipment attached to the aircraft, and spare parts.

Class 10: Automobiles, except those you use as a taxi or in a daily rental business, including vans, trucks, tractors, wagons, and trailers. General-purpose electronic data-processing equipment (commonly called computer hardware) and systems software acquired before March 23, 2004. See also class 45.

Class 10.1: Passenger vehicles whose cost exceeds $30,000, before GST and PST, for vehicles acquired on or after January 1, 2001.

Class 12: China, cutlery, kitchen utensils that cost under $200, linen, uniforms, dies, jigs, moulds, cutting or shaping parts of a machine, tools and medical or dental instruments that cost under $200, computer software (except systems software), and video cassettes bought after February 15, 1984, that you rent and do not expect to rent to any one person for more than 7 days in a 30-day period. The cost limit is increased to $500 from $200 for tools acquired after May 1, 2006. The cost limit for medical or dental instruments and kitchen utensils under Class 12 is increased to $500 from $200 for such utensils and instruments acquired after May 1, 2006. Tools eligible under this class specifically exclude electronic communication devices and electronic data processing equipment.

Class 13: Leasehold interests.

Class 14: Patents, franchises, concessions or licenses for a limited period (where the period is unlimited, the asset qualifies as eligible capital property).

Class 16: Taxis, vehicles used in a daily car-rental business, coin-operated video games or pinball machines acquired after February 15, 1984, and freight trucks acquired after December 6, 1991, whose gross weight is greater than 11.788 kg.

Class 17: Roads, parking lots, sidewalks, airplane runways, storage areas, or similar surface construction.

Class 22: Most power-operated, moveable equipment bought before 1988 that is used for excavating, moving, placing or compacting earth, rock, concrete, or asphalt.

Class 38: Most power-operated, moveable equipment bought after 1987 that is used for excavating, moving, placing or compacting earth, rock, concrete, or asphalt.

Class 43: Property bought after February 25, 1992, that is used primarily in the manufacturing or processing of goods.

Class 43.1: Electrical generating equipment.

Class 43.2: Energy production equipment acquired after February 22, 2005, and before 2020.

Class 44: Property that is a patent, or a right to use patented information for a limited or unlimited period.

Class 45: Computer equipment and systems software acquired after March 22, 2004. The current rule allowing a separate class election is not available for equipment that qualifies for the 45% rate. However, you may elect to have the current rule apply for equipment that is acquired before 2005.

Class 46: Data network infrastructure equipment acquired after March 22, 2004 (usually included in class 8).

Class 47: Property acquired after February 22, 2005, that is transmission or distribution equipment.

Class 48: Property acquired after February 22, 2005, that is a combustion turbine.

Class 49: Property acquired after February 22, 2005, that is a pipeline, used for the transmission of petroleum, natural gas or related hydrocarbons.

Class 50: Computers and related computer equipment acquired after March 18, 2007.

Class 51: Natural gas distribution pipelines including control and monitoring devices, valves, metering and regulating equipment and other equipment ancillary to a distribution pipeline (but not buildings or other structures) acquired on or after March 19, 2007, that have neither been used, nor acquired for use, before March 19, 2007. Property acquired before March 19, 2007, is included in class 1.

Class 52: Computers and related equipment acquired after January 27, 2009, and before February 1, 2011. The half-year rule is not applicable.

Special Rules

The program does not compute any CCA on assets depreciated on a straight-line basis. Therefore, enter the desired amount of CCA with respect to these classes on the CCA claimed line. You must enter an amount for Québec purposes even where this amount does not differ from the federal amount.

Both class 10.1 (Passenger vehicles) and class 13 (Leasehold interests) have a detailed workchart which is different from the usual detailed calculation workchart of a class as a result of the application of special rules.

For instance, a separate class is prescribed for each automobile included in class 10.1. Moreover, upon disposition of such automobile, there can be no recapture or terminal loss, but an amount equivalent to half of the "normal" CCA for the year of disposition can be claimed if the automobile was included in class 10.1 at the end of the previous year.

Note that a separate class is also prescribed for each rental property costing $50,000 or more.

For Québec purposes only: you may use class 10/12 for property that is included in class 10 (with the half-year rule) for federal purposes and included in class 12 (without the half-year rule) for Québec purposes.

If there is a terminal Loss

If there are no more property in a class, but there is still a remaining UCC balance, enter "Y" (yes) in the appropriate box to indicate a terminal loss. The terminal loss is automatically deducted from income.

Eligible capital property (Class 14.1)

Creation of class 14.1

If the business’s taxation year straddles January 1, 2017, and the answer to the question The taxation year of the business includes January 1, 2017, or ends after that date is “Yes” in T2125/T2042 Cumulative Eligible Capital Deduction form (Jump Code: 2125/2042 CEC), class 14.1 will automatically be created from the information contained in this form. In cases where the taxation year starts on January 1, 2017, the class will be created when the client file is rolled forward.

Data calculated during the transfer from T2125/T2042 Cumulative Eligible Capital Deduction form

Cumulative eligible capital (CEC) balance (positive or negative) in respect of the business on January 1, 2017 (line G)

To calculate the deemed capital cost of property for this class, enter the cumulative eligible capital (CEC) amount on January 1, 2017. Taxprep input amount D (or amount F, when rolling forward) from T2125/T2042 Cumulative Eligible Capital Deduction form.

If the CEC balance is negative, enter the amount that would need to be included in income pursuant to paragraph 14(1)(b) ITA, as that paragraph applied immediately before January1. 2017 (line H)

In cases where the CEC balance is negative at the time of the transfer, an amount to include must be taken into account in the calculation of the deemed capital cost of property in the class. Taxprep calculates this amount to include using amount U in T2125/T2042 Cumulative Eligible Capital Deduction form.

Deductions that reduced CEC in respect of the business for taxation years ending before January 1, 2017 (line I)

This amount is used to calculate the deemed capital cost of the property in the class. It will be calculated only if an amount in shown on line O of T2125/T2042 Cumulative Eligible Capital Deduction form. Otherwise, it will have to be entered manually.

Item D.1 of the CEC definition in paragraph 14(5) ITA, as that paragraph applied immediately before January1. 2017 (line J)

In cases where the CEC balance entered on line G is negative and where the amount to be included on line H is positive, this represents the amount calculated on line Q of T2125/T2042 Cumulative Eligible Capital Deduction form relating to the CEC deductions claimed and the negative balances in the CEC account that were included in income for taxation years beginning before July 1, 1988, in respect of the business.

Data calculated to manage the information relating to property acquired before January 1, 2017

If the election under subparagraph 13(38)(d)(iv) ITA is made for one property in the class, enter the capital gain or the amount to include in income

Where the business makes the election under subparagraph 13(38)(d)(iv) ITA upon acquiring a property in its taxation year straddles January 1, 2017, the capital gain to include in Schedule 6 should be reduced by the lesser of the following amounts: the gain to include itself or the capital cost of the property acquired. If the business also makes the election under 13(38)(d)(iii) ITA, the amount to include in Schedule 1 should then be reduced by the lesser of the following amounts: the amount itself or half of the capital cost of the property acquired.

Taxprep will calculate the capital gain or the amount to include if the answer to the question The business makes the election under subparagraph 13(38)(d)(iv) ITA is “Yes” in one of the T2125/T2042 Additions and dispositions Workchart (Jump Code: 2125/2042 CCA FA) copies corresponding to the class and an amount is entered on line H. In cases where the election under subparagraph 13(38)(d)(iii) ITA is not made, the calculated capital gain should be entered manually in Form T3 Schedule 1.

Deemed total capital cost of property in the class under paragraph 13(38)(a) ITA (line K)

This amount will be calculated based on the formula provided for in paragraph 13(38)(a) ITA, i.e.:

(4/3 x [G + (3/2 x H) + I + J])

where

G is CEC balance (positive or negative) in respect of the business on January 1, 2017

H is the amount that would need to be included in income pursuant to paragraph 14(1)(b) ITA, as that paragraph applied immediately before January1. 2017, when the CEC balance is negative

I is all deductions that reduced CEC in respect of the business for taxation years ending before January 1, 2017

J is item D.1 of the CEC definition set out in paragraph 14(5) ITA, as that paragraph applied immediately before January 1, 2017, when the CEC balance is negative.

Amount deemed allowed as a deduction against the capital cost of property in the class under paragraph 13(38)(c) ITA for taxation years ending before January 1, 2017 (line L)

The deemed CCA allowed is equal to the difference between the deemed total capital cost (line K) and the positive CEC balance (line G) at the time of the transfer.

In cases where le CEC balance entered on line G is negative, the amount calculated on line L will be limited to the amount on line G and will be entered on line UCC Adjustments under subsections13(38) and 13(39) ITA in order to calculate the CCA recapture for the class.

UCC balance in the class on January 1, 2017 (line M)

The UCC balance is equal to the difference between the deemed total capital cost and the deemed CCA allowed. Any positive result obtained will also be the UCC balance (opening) entered on line 1, if this amount is positive. In general, the UCC balance at the time the class is created will be equal to the CEC balance in respect of the business (line G).

CCA claimed with respect to this UCC balance in preceding taxation years (line N)

This is the total amount of the capital cost allowance (CCA) and the additional deduction that has been deducted from the UCC balance in the class on January 1, 2017 (line M), for taxation years ending between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2026. This amount will be calculated each year when the client file is rolled forward.

The amount updated to this line will vary according to the CCA claimed. When rolling forward a client file, Taxprep will automatically add to the amount entered on the line in the initial client file, the lesser of:

the total of the CCA and the additional deduction calculated for the UCC balance on January 1, 2017, net of the CCA amount claimed with respect to this UCC balance in prior years; and
the CCA amount claimed on line 12 for the class.

When the CCA amount claimed on line 12 of the form is not nil and it is different from the maximum CCA that can be claimed by the business, verify if the amount updated is correct.

Additional deduction

For taxation years ending before 2027, an additional deduction corresponding to 2% of the UCC in the class on January 1, 2017, can be claimed with respect to property of a business that has been acquired before January 1, 2017. This additional deduction is however reduced from any amount that has been deducted in prior taxation years and three times the total of the amounts deducted from the UCC because of the amounts received to which subsection 13(39) ITA applies.

Furthermore, if the total of that additional deduction and the eligible CCA for the year is less than $500, the additional deduction may be increased to allow a total CCA of $500, without exceeding the UCC in the class on January 1, 2017 (net of CCA deductions for prior years that started after January 1, 2017), or to ensure that the CCA in respect of the class for the year to be more than the UCC balance (before the application of such deduction).

Transitional rules – Subsections 13(38) to 13(42) ITA

Subsections 13(38) to (42) ITA provide for the transitional rules that apply as a result of the repealing of the eligible capital property rules and the addition of CCA class 14.1.

Subsection 13(38) ITA provides for the rules that apply where an eligible capital expenditure in respect of a business has been incurred before January 1, 2017.

Subsection 13(39) ITA sets forth the rules that apply where certain property that was eligible capital property before January 1, 2017, is disposed of on or after January 1, 2017.

Subsection 13(40) ITA prevents the use of subsection 13(39) ITA to “step-up” the UCC in the new class by means of a non-arm’s length transfer of property that was eligible capital property before January 1, 2017.

Subsection 13(39) ITA sets forth that the terms cumulative eligible capital, eligible capital expenditure, eligible capital property and exempt gains balance have the meanings that would be assigned to those expressions if the Act read as it did immediately before 201, for the purposes of subsections (38) to (40) and (42), paragraph 20(1)(hh.1), subsections 40(13) to (16) and paragraph 79(4)(b),

Subsection 13(42) of the Act provides rules consequential on the repeal of the eligible capital property rules where a taxpayer owns property included in Class 14.1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of a business at the beginning of January 1, 2017, that was an eligible capital property in respect of the business immediately before January 1, 2017.

Classes 54 and 55 (zero-emission vehicles)

There are two CCA classes for zero-emission vehicles acquired after March 18, 2019, and available for use before 2028 for which an enhanced CCA rate of 100 per cent is available in the year of acquisition:

class 54 (CCA rate of 30%) for zero-emission vehicles that would be included in class 10 and for zero-emission passenger vehicles included in class 10.1;
class 55 (CCA rate of 40%) for zero-emission vehicles that would be included in class 16.

A “zero-emission vehicle” is:

a motor vehicle as defined in the Income Tax Act;
a fully electric or a plug-in hybrid vehicle, with a battery capacity of at least 15 kWh or fully powered by hydrogen;
a new vehicle, i.e. it must not have been used, or acquired for use, for any purpose before it is acquired by the taxpayer;
a vehicle in respect of which no assistance has been paid by the Government of Canada under the federal purchase incentive announced on March 19, 2019.

A “zero-emission passenger vehicle” is an automobile (as defined in the ITA) that is included in class 54.

For each zero-emission passenger vehicle included in class 54 that is available for use in the taxation year, a limit of $55,000 (plus the sales taxes applicable on this amount) is applied to the capital cost eligible for CCA. In addition, where the vehicle is disposed of to a person or partnership with which the taxpayer deals at arm’s length,

if the disposition occurs before July 30, 2019, the actual proceeds of disposition are multiplied by the ratio corresponding to the capital cost of the vehicle divided by the actual cost of the vehicle;
if the disposition occurs after July 29, 2019, according to section 52 of the Legislative Proposals Relating to Income Tax and Other Legislation published on July 30, 2019, the actual proceeds of disposition are multiplied by the ratio corresponding to the capital cost of the vehicle divided by the result of the following formula:

D + (E + F) – (G + H)

where

D is the cost to the taxpayer of the vehicle,

E is the amount determined under paragraph 13(7.1)(d) ITA in respect of the vehicle at the time of disposition,

F is the maximum amount determined for C in the UCC definition set out in subsection 13(21) ITA in respect of the vehicle,

G is the amount determined under paragraph 13(7.1)(f) ITA in respect of the vehicle at the time of disposition, and

H is the maximum amount determined for J in the UCC definition set out in subsection 13(21) ITA in respect of the vehicle.

When the Additions and Dispositions Workchart is used, the program calculates the eligible capital cost of a zero-emission passenger vehicle in the year of acquisition as well as the proceeds of disposition in the year of disposition when you complete the “Information relating to zero-emission vehicles” section. The field “Government assistance received or repaid” located in the “Disposition of a zero-emission passenger vehicle” subsection should be used to enter the result obtained according to the portion (E + F) – (G + H) of the formula described above to allow for the calculation of the proceeds of disposition when the disposition is made after July 29, 2019.

Property included in classes 54 and 55 are not AIIP and the half-year rule does not apply to them. However, note that, for the purposes of the calculations in Schedule 8, CRA considers property from class 54 or 55 acquired in the taxation year to be AIIP.

Subsection 1103(2j) ITR provides for an election to not include in class 54 or 55 a vehicle that would otherwise be a zero-emission vehicle. This election means that such a vehicle would not be a zero-emission vehicle but would be included in its usual CCA class (class 10, 10.1 or 16).

Property qualified for accelerated depreciation

Accelerated investment incentive property

To qualify as accelerated investment incentive property, property must be acquired by a taxpayer after November 20, 2018, and become available for use before 2028. In addition, certain properties are excluded from the definition, in particular:

property acquired on a rollover basis (section 85 ITA), or following an amalgamation (section 87 ITA) or the wind-up of a subsidiary (section 88 ITA);
property previously owned or acquired by the taxpayer or by a person or partnership with which the taxpayer did not deal at arm’s length at any time when the property was owned or acquired by the person or partnership.

Qualified property acquired in a taxation year after November 20, 2018, will not be subject to the half-year rule, but will benefit from an increased CCA in the year of acquisition. The modified subsection 1100(2) ITR incorporates the existing half-year rule and provides for the new increased first-year allowance according to the CCA class:

The general rule that applies for all CCA classes subject to subsection 1100(2) ITR (except classes 12, 13, 14, 15, 43.1, 43.2 and 53) allows for an increase in the UCC balance before CCA equal to 50% of the net additions (these is no addition for property acquired and available for use after 2023 and before 2028).
Specific rules that apply to classes 43.1, 43.2 and 53, benefit from a 100% CCA of the cost of acquisition for property in these classes acquired after November 20, 2018, and before 2024. A phase-out of the increased CCA is defined for each CCA class for property available for use after 2023 and before 2028.
The half-year rule, which always apply to property that do not meet the definition of “accelerated investment incentive property” from subsection 1104(4) ITR as well as property acquired and available for use before November 21, 2018, and after 2027.

In addition, specific rules are provided for CCA classes 13 and 14 in paragraph 1100(1)(b) and (c) ITR. Therefore, for accelerated investment incentive property, the CCA will be equal to 150% of the regular calculated CCA in the year of acquisition of the property.

For more information, consult the Canada Department of finances Web page, 2018 Fall Economic Statement: Investing in Middle Class Jobs.

Property qualified for accelerated depreciation special rules in Québec

In the Information Bulletin 2018-9, published on December 3, 2018, the Government of Québec announced the harmonization with the measures for the accelerated investment incentive property announced by the federal Government. In addition, it announced the increase to 100% of the depreciation for a property, acquired and available for use after December 3, 2018, that is qualified intellectual property or general-purpose electronic data processing equipment. For qualified property acquired and available for use in the taxation year, the CCA is equal to the capital cost of the acquired property.

A qualified intellectual property means property part of CCA class 14, 14,1 or 44, acquired after December 3, 2018, that is a patent or a right to use patented information, a licence, a permit, know-how, a commercial secret or other similar property constituting knowledge. The property must be acquired by the corporation in the course of a technology transfer or be developed by or on behalf of the corporation with a view to enabling the implementation of an innovation or invention with regards to its business. The expression “technology transfer” refers to the transmission, to a corporation, of knowledge in the form of know-how, techniques, processes or formulas. The process of implementing an innovation or invention as well as the implementation efforts of that innovation or invention must be made only in Québec.

General-purpose electronic data processing equipment and systems software for that equipment means property included in CCA class 50, acquired and available for use after December 3, 2018, that is used primarily in Québec in the course of carrying on a business.

Additional capital cost allowance of 30%

The following information is taken from the Information Bulletin 2018-9 presented on December 3, 2018, by the Québec Ministère des Finances.

To encourage continued investment in manufacturing and processing equipment, clean energy generation equipment, general-purpose electronic data processing equipment and certain intellectual property, an additional capital cost allowance of 30% has been introduced for eligible property acquired after December 3, 2018. This additional capital cost allowance will be permanent and will allow a taxpayer who acquires targeted property to deduct in computing income from a business for a taxation year, an amount corresponding to 30% of the amount deducted in computing such income, for the previous taxation year, on account of the capital cost allowance for the targeted property.

Targeted property

For purposes of the additional capital cost allowance of 30%, targeted property will be, on the one hand, property that is:

machinery or equipment used in manufacturing or processing, i.e. property included in class 53 of Schedule B of the Regulation respecting the Taxation Act, other than property with regards to which the taxpayer was entitled to or could have been entitled to claim the additional capital cost allowance of 60%, or property acquired after 2025 that will be property included in class 43 of this schedule, but that would have been included in class 53 had it been acquired in 2025;
clean energy generation equipment, i.e. property included in class 43.1 of this schedule or property included in class 43.2 of this schedule;
general-purpose electronic data processing equipment and related operating system software, i.e. property included in class 50 of this schedule, other than property with regards to which the taxpayer was entitled to or could have been entitled to claim the additional capital cost allowance of 60%.

The property must be new at the time of its acquisition by the taxpayer and not property acquired from a person or partnership with which the taxpayer is not dealing at arm’s length. It must start being used within a reasonable period after being acquired and, except in the case of loss or involuntary destruction by fire, theft or water, or a major breakdown, be used primarily in Québec in the course of carrying on a business for a period of at least 730 consecutive days after it started being used (hereinafter “730-day period”) by the taxpayer or a person with whom the taxpayer is not dealing at arm’s length and who acquired the property in circumstances in which a transfer, amalgamation or winding-up occurred.

More specifically, if, at any time in the 730-day period, an event ensures that one of the conditions allowing a property to be a targeted property cannot be met, the property will not be a targeted property.

For purposes of the additional capital cost allowance of 30%, targeted property will be, on the other hand, a qualified intellectual property.

Qualified intellectual property

For purposes of the additional capital cost allowance of 30%, qualified intellectual property will be a qualified intellectual property as defined in section 2.1 of the Information Bulletin.

Separate class

A separate class will be provided for a taxpayer’s properties of a same class eligible for the additional capital cost allowance of 30%.

Creation of a separate class in Québec

Here is an example explaining the creation of a separate class in Québec:

The taxpayer is a trust whose taxation year starts on January 1 and ends on December 31, 2018.
A class 53 had been created in a previous taxation year.
On November 25, 2018, the trust acquired a class 53 property at a cost of $10,000. This property is not eligible for the additional capital cost allowance of 30%.
On December 12, 2018, the trust acquired a class 53 property at a cost of $15,000. This property is eligible for the additional capital cost allowance of 30%.

The treatment will be as follows:

Federally, the total of the acquisitions of $25,000 must be presented in the existing class 53.
In Québec, the property acquired on November 25 must be presented in the existing class 53. The property acquired on December 12, 2018, must be presented in a separate class, as set forth in the Information Bulletin.

To present this information in the program, proceed as follows:

In the existing class 53, enter $25,000, which represents the total of the acquisitions in class 53, on the line Additions (accelerated investment incentive property) in the Federal column.
On the corresponding line in the Québec column, override the acquisition cost to $10,000, which represent the cost of the property not eligible for the additional capital cost allowance of 30%.
Create a new class 53 for property eligible for the additional capital cost allowance of 30%.
In this new class, enter $15,000, which represent the cost of the property eligible for the additional cost allowance of 30%, on the line Additions (accelerated investment incentive property) in the Québec column, using an override.

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